*This number reflects active employees of The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
The numbers represented above can vary throughout the year and may not account for some overlap in duties.
5th Hospital in Canada for peer-reviewed funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
5th Hospital in Canada for overall research funding
$2.1B Impact on Ottawa economy due to our research (since 2001)
2,230 Scientific papers published in 2020
48 Active patent families
10 Spin-off companies
1,335 Beds
18 State-of-the-art core research facilities
58 Scientific research labs
857 Active clinical trials
7,472 Patients enrolled in clinical trials
7.9 Average length of stay (days)
58,658 Patient admissions
163,818 Emergency visits
994,658 Ambulatory care visits
70,042 Surgical cases
6,489 Babies delivered
At The Ottawa Hospital, excellence in patient care is our priority.
By improving wait times, patients’ rating of experience and other key measures of a high-performing hospital, our goal is to rank among the top 10 percent of North American hospitals in providing safe, high-quality care to our patients.
Strategic aim | Indicator | 2021–2022 result | ||
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*Measurable improvement during fiscal year | ||||
Better Patient Experience |
Overall rating of experience – inpatients Percent of admitted patients who rated their experience as 9 or 10 out of 10. |
66%* | ||
Better Staff Experience |
Workplace stress to satisfaction index Values greater than 0 indicate workplace satisfaction outweighs workplace stress. |
0.4 | ||
Better Value |
Total margin Percent by which consolidated revenues vary from consolidated expenses. Negative variance indicates revenues are lower than expenses; positive variance indicates revenues are higher than expenses. |
1%* | ||
Hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) Ratio of actual deaths to the number of expected deaths. A ratio greater than 100 means more deaths occurred than expected; a ratio less than 100 means fewer deaths occurred than expected. |
100 | |||
Better Health of Populations |
30-day unplanned readmissions Percent of patients readmitted within 30 days of hospital discharge. |
10% | ||
ALC rate Percent of inpatient beds that are occupied by patients in an alternate level of care (ALC). These patients no longer require acute care and are waiting for discharge supports like homecare or for placement in a downstream facility. |
21% |